Poll of the Day > Arv does not cut the plastic rings on 6 packs in protest

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Arvs throwing it in the garbage not the ocean. Arvs not going to do something because Arv beleibs its going in the ocean how about putting Arvs trash bags where they belong at the land fill and not the ocean. The ones who are throwing trash bags into the ocean are the ones who should be in trouble. That and Arv believes in natural selection soon the fishes will evolve into the plastic 6 pack
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Unfortunately, that's not a form of protest that's actually going to do anything except result in more intact rings in the ocean. You're going to have to target those with the power to prevent trash from leaving landfills more directly if you want to actually change anything. Alternatively, just don't buy 6-packs with plastic rings, then you also won't have to cut anything.
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California be like "At least we outlawed straws!"
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Zangulus posted...

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

California be like "At least we outlawed straws!"

My favorite part about people bashing California (of which there are many valid reasons) for this is that it isnt true. Lawls.

Well they did outlaw plastic bags for the most part. Maybe a restriction would be a better word. Just like how plastic straws are restricted at full service restaurants with SF banning them as well. But hey, they just banned sales vapes recently.

Supporters said the law cuts down on ocean pollution and reliance on disposable plastics.

It is a very small step to make a customer who wants a plastic straw ask for it, wrote Brown, in a signing letter. It might make them pause and think again about an alternative. But one thing is clear, we must find ways to reduce and eventually eliminate single use plastics.

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ArvTheGreat posted...

...beleibs...

arv, are you a beleiber?
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Zangulus posted...

KnoxKorner posted...

Zangulus posted...

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

California be like "At least we outlawed straws!"

My favorite part about people bashing California (of which there are many valid reasons) for this is that it isnt true. Lawls.

Well they did outlaw plastic bags for the most part. Maybe a restriction would be a better word. Just like how plastic straws are restricted at full service restaurants with SF banning them as well. But hey, they just banned sales vapes recently.

Supporters said the law cuts down on ocean pollution and reliance on disposable plastics.

It is a very small step to make a customer who wants a plastic straw ask for it, wrote Brown, in a signing letter. It might make them pause and think again about an alternative. But one thing is clear, we must find ways to reduce and eventually eliminate single use plastics.

I know theyve been restricted throughout the state, and the cause was to help the oceans.

But why is that worth ridicule? Even if were not a huge contributing factor, we are still a contributing factor and isnt it worth working to make it better?

Or we could just laugh at people trying to make the world a better place at the expense of small inconvieneces. That works too.

Because its laughable that doing something so insignificant will have any real effect on anything. Asia will still dump a unfathomable amount of trash into the oceans with little care at all. Imagine 100 billionaires telling you to ride a bike to work while they jet all over the planet in a private jet? Imagine a famous musician getting a Prius only to have it flown from Japan to the UK on a jet. There by causing the equivalent amount of pollution as driving said car around the earth six times.

Real changes and policy need to be implemented top down and globally. But that won't ever happen. Inconveniencing yourself isn't going to buy this environment another year while a plane flies from Long Beach to LAX. Not using a plastic straw/bag/bottle is not going to save sea turtles when when 1/5th of the world population dumps enough plastic to cover Delaware into the sea every year. (while a a few thousand of those people harvest sea turtles for their shells) The African Elephant won't go extinct because some fat dentist from the Midwest paid 50 grand to shoot a old aggressive elephant. It will go extinct because Li Wei paid Kwame $25 dollars to shoot 20 elephants to sell the ivory to Zhang Yong to make penis pills.

But enough about that. How is your Toxoplasmosis doing these days?
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I am not eating beef, not because it will actually make a difference (it won't) but because I don't want to be a part of the problem.

While not using plastic bags will not make a difference, it prevents you from being (as large) of a part of the problem.

If CA got their freaking public transportation systems going/upgraded finally (freaking bart to San Jose has been in the works like my whole freaking life and i'm old), that would make a bigger difference for sure. Waaay to much driving going on and the traffic in most places is horrid.

But whatever, at least it's a start.
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Because of all the free soda Ive gotten lately, Ive been cutting the plastic rings every other day...
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If Cthulhu ever rises from the depths I would arm myself with a plastic straw, and those six pack holders. If fact im pretty sure there's a reason he hasn't surfaced yet . Little bitch, come get some.

The way I see it, everybody has to use less plastic, so I might as well get in on that now. Sure, I won't single-handedly save the world, but if everybody treats that as a reason not to try, the problem's never going away. It's also not like I'm all that inconvenienced by limiting how much plastic I throw out.
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